A Macon man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with last week’s fatal shooting on Waterworks Road.
Police Chief Fred Shelton said that Johnathan J. Slaughter, 20, of Macon, turned himself in about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
“We issued a warrant for his arrest, and he contacted us and said he was going to get a lawyer and turn himself in,” Shelton said.
First responders were called to an apartment in the 700 block of Waterworks Road just after 3 p.m. Friday. When they arrived they found Amarcus McMillen, 23, dead from a gunshot wound. An unidentified female was also shot and was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Shelton said at the time that witnesses said a Black male wearing a mask entered the apartment about the time of the shooting.
Shelton said Wednesday he still can’t say what happened.
“We’re still trying to find that out,” he told The Dispatch. “He won’t talk to us until he talks to his lawyer.”
Shelton said CPD is not looking for any other suspects.
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